What is the exact logic behind a 1 month delay for north america?

[nearmiss]

It has been a very long time.

What is another month?

The way I see it, the forums will buzz with a ton of great information the first month. That way, those of us who need an upgrade in hardware can be taking stock and buying what we need.

Also, configurations will be alot of discussion as well. The CHProducts setups will have a bunch working to get good profiles, which won't be done in a week or two. It could take the whole month just for CHProducts profiles to be adequate.

Then you have to think about sound and video configurations based on the type of hardware you have.

No steam download for me as far as I can tell. I'm an offline player and I don't want to have to stay online when I use COD. If I have to do something like a logon to steam and then go completely offline and use COD that will be fine. I just don't want to have to depend on IP and steam to keep a connection for offline use.